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All downhill from there
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I remember my dad and I going to the store around 8am to pick this up. I thought I was the first person in the world to play it since I got it so early in the morning. 10 year old me had no idea that it came out in Japan first
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I played Emerald to death on my Groudon SP and then I played it to death again on my green Micro. One of the advantages of the Micro was how portable it was, I could have it in my pocket when I went down to Toys R Us to get my Deoxys and Emerald packs. Always an opportunity to get a few minutes in while waiting for the bus or something.
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I remember asking for Emerald and my parents finally pirating a copy for me. The silly thing is that I was shocked to see Pokemon sprites doing a little animation when a wild encounter started: I didn’t like it at all (I was a pretty stupid child lol) so I immediately went back to my Pokemon Ruby lmao
Well I apologize, Emerald was truly the greatest version.
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We should have today off of work. National holiday
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Although Gen 2 is probably my favorite gen (or at least the one I have the most nostalgia for), I honestly think I had the most fun time playing Sapphire/Emerald. The best part for me was the true sense of mystery surrounding the legendaries. It felt as though there were actual puzzles to solve and discoveries to make, and then you were rewarded at the end. Compare that to the only real mystery in Crystal, the Ruins of Alph, which went nowhere. There’s absolutely something super special about Gen 3, and def Emerald specifically.
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Still have my launch week Emerald, complete and in nice condition. Also have the receipt inside from when I bought it from Woolworths here in the UK. I’d saved up the £30 of allowance in advance and waited patiently…and it didn’t disappoint!
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I have distinct memories of being “wowed” by the first game of each new gen, but man emerald had me in a chokehold for a minute, especially as I started to get into the battle frontier. I maintain that emeralds battle frontier is still the most creative iteration of a battle tower/tree-style affair, although PtHgSS’s was fun too. What a freaking tease they put in ORAS
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I totally agree and would even go a step further: Emeralds Battle Frontier is the best thing ever put into any Pokemon game.
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in terms of a feature? I agree. It was so creative. Battle tower / competitive is extremely repetitive bordering on boring. I loved that yes there were battle elements (even Annabel’s battle tower) but the other six facilities can be beaten without being amazing at battling by strategy. You could hoard and optimize resources in the pyramid, you could get through the Pike without fighting a battle other than Lucy, you could beat the palace with aggressively natured mons, etc. That’s never been replicated.
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I was never rewarded.
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I bring back the narrative that “bring the azure flute to spear pillar” was too complicated for dumb gen 4 players but in RSE and FRLG two major puzzles were locked behind “lol learn braille”
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I learnt more english through the Regi mystery and Serebii than I did in 4 years of garbage middle school.
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me, furiously, in elementary/middle school “Joe Serebii HELP ME”
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I see the “lol learn braille” thing a lot but I’m 100% certain that the manuals had the whole “language” in? Never had a problem with it.
Was only an issue if you bought a used loose cart some years later.
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Not a Hoenn Hoe per se. But, this is a fact. The last starters that I actually cared about training instead of dropping after gym 1.
Obviously the Kanto starters were great (this is the start of Pokémon after all), gen 2 was ok; good designs, but not too interesting, but the designs in the third version all brought something without leaving the classic ´starter Pokémon template´ (like every later generation did with at least one of them. Mostly by making designs too complicated).
Swampert with the Water/Ground typing and good stats (which made it very different from Quagsire), Sceptile being the first (well almost) fast Grass type and Blaziken being Fire/Fighting and somewhat Flying-like.
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I’ll allow you to stay here
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